The College of Medicine / University of Basrah organised an interactive lecture for students of the fourth stage on anthrax and rabies. The lecture discussed infectious diseases, their mode of transmission, clinical symptoms associated with the disease, methods of diagnosis and treatment, in addition to how to prevent these diseases. Where the lecture was delivered by a group of students of the fourth stage in the college of Medicine and under the supervision of Assistant Professor Dr. Alaa Khattar Moussa, and in the presence of the Dean of the college of Medicine, Prof. Dr. Murtadha Mohammed Saleh Al-Musafer, and the Rapporteur of the Council, Assistant Professor Dr. Salman.